Tips: How to build a nine-story server rack?

How to make better use of your data center space? Some companies have adopted a method of construction rather than simply expanding.

By using higher racks and cabinets, users can use them to accommodate more servers per square foot of data center space. This practice is often used inside leased data centers to support higher density IT facilities.

"Our customers' IT deployments are becoming more complex. Now they know that the key to deployment density is how high the rack can be," said Hossein Fateh, president and technology president of DuPont Fabros. "You can pass us." To build a vertical horizontal rack, there is no additional cost to set up your rack. To be more efficient, we will build a 9-foot rack. We just helped a customer complete the deployment. "

A typical standard server rack is 7 feet tall and can accommodate 42U rack server equipment in a 19-inch wide slot. There are many sizes to choose from in the rack, and the manufacturer's cabinet ceiling is 23 inches wide (usually used for telecommunications equipment) and heights range from 44U to 58U. Higher

rack allows you to deploy additional server equipment within more space, but also to improve the heat dissipation problems. Especially when the rack is completely filled, the 9-inch high rack has more advantages. A major challenge facing data centers today is addressing air conditioning and temperature fluctuations at the top and bottom of the rack.

alert data center floor cooling problems "hot spot" problem

data center is there has been a problem from the past, must have cooling equipment under the floor to help reduce data center temperature. "If the underground airflow is not strong enough, there will not be enough cooling air in the rack; if the underground airflow is too strong, it will cause hot and cold mixed hot and cold air at the top of the rack, causing convection."

Using hot aisle and cold aisle control prevents the server from residing at this point.